Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Katie Hobbs will get the interview she wanted on PBS despite refusing to debate Republican Kari Lake. The Citizens Clean Elections Commission, which sponsors debates, blasts the station's decision.
Howard Fischer Capitol Media Services PHOENIX — Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Katie Hobbs is getting the interview she wanted on Arizona PBS despite refusing to participate in a debate with Republican Kari Lake.
People are also reading… The decision Wednesday by KAET, part of the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, came as a surprise to Tom Collins. He is executive director of the commission that has conducted candidate debates ahead of every election since being created by voters in 1998.
"It is our responsibility as a news agency to provide the public with access to the candidates who are running for office so they can learn more and make informed decisions,'' the school's prepared statement said. "And ethics is about, if nothing else, keeping your word,'' Collins said."And ethics in government, which is what ASU is, is about transparency. We got neither of those things from the Cronkite school.''"PBS has unilaterally caved to Katie Hobbs' demands and bailed her out from the consequences of her cowardly decision to avoid debating me on stage,'' Lake said in a prepared statement.
"My belief is the Cronkite School does not intend to have a relationship with the Clean Elections Commission forward,'' he said."That is their decision. And if they did not understand that when they made this decision, then they are critically unsophisticated in their thinking.'' In refusing the debate, Nicole DeMont, Hobbs' campaign manager, told commissioners that Lake's actions during the GOP primary debate showed she would make the general election debate into a"spectacle.'' That specifically included Lake's contention the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.
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